Musical improvisation

years of playing. When entering high school, under the guidance of Mr. Leonard Kay, I was able to fully meet my potential in my musical talents as I excelled in grade 8 music. Based on his recommendation, I joined the accelerated grade 8 jazz ensemble to further my skills in playing.

This fall I was able to attend a wonderful production called “Dream’d in a Dream” performed by the Sean Curran Company and the Ustastshkirt Plus musical ensemble. It was a beautiful collaboration between contemporary American dance and ancient Central Asian music. Although the dancing was beautiful, to me, the music was even more so. The program was a creation of Sean Curran, a choreographer from NYC. It was inspired by his travels Kazakhstan and the music he heard there. He came across a small

(timbre) is defined as the quality that distinguishes one musical instrument from another”(Book). Tone color is impacted by different components, but the most common is the material in which the instrument is crafted (Source 1). Some instruments are made of wood or metal, also instruments are made up of several different types of materials which can also affect the tone color. String instruments, such as a guitar and violin, make their musical sounds when the musician either plucks the

I attended the Brent Wallarab’s Jazz Ensemble’s performance on March 9th located at the Musical Arts Center at Indiana University Bloomington. It started at 8pm and ended around 9:10pm. Since it is a jazz ensemble, there are lots of instruments involve into the music. As always, piano, bass, guitar and drums serve for the rhythm section, but for some particular songs, vibraphone also serves as the rhythm keeper too. For the woodwind part, there are two alto saxophones, two tenor saxophones, one baritone

The most important feature of medieval music is that a lot of musical theories and techniques which people use these days were settled in this period. Composers need a musical notation to express their musical ideas as composers need language and letters to communicate with other people. Body: (1300) In the late thirteenth century, a genre ‘Motet’ became popular as organum and conductus were gradually disappeared and ‘fell out of fashion’. This genre is similar to the way that a textual trope and

The concert Jazz Standard live by Zvonimir Tot and Kelly Sill provided a great experience for understanding the Jazz music as a beginner to musical world. They just used a guitar and a bass for the whole concert. Dr. Tot played the guitar and Sill played the bass. I am not very familiar with European centered music, therefore I don’t have much knowledge about the styles and variations the artist is playing. But it was very interesting to experience an energetic show with just two instruments. In

So long as life persists, the timeless themes found in plays and works will persist. I suppose my interest in the dramatic arts began when my father took me to Broadway shows when I was young. My father, Daniel Staton, has produced many Broadway musicals and plays, including Hairspray, Jersey Boys, August Osage: County, The Producers, Little Shop of Horrors, Smokey Joe’s Café,

When I was eight years old, my first drum instructor was named Mr. Dowden. While he would not be the most talented teacher I would utilize, or the most influential on my style, he laid the foundation for me to competently read and write music. Where he did little to inspire my percussive style, he shined at inspiring my attitude towards the medium. “The band is a single living creature,” he told me, “And you are the heart.” While this meant little to my disinterested young mind at the time, those

bonds of family laterally and linearly One village may have a genealogy of a common ancestor Professional caste of musicians memorize these genealogies and recite them in song Each musical instrument has a spirit of it own. Introduction to the Region: Polyrhythm • • The most distinctive of traditional African musical characteristics Different meters or metrical starting points going on at once Characteristics of Traditional African Music • Ostinato 1. A short pattern that repeats over and

Picking up a new instrument or musical skill may not be the first thing that appeals to you as a great activity for retirement. It is the sort of activity that, at first glance, may seem too challenging to start at this stage of life. After all, those of us who have put in many years in the workforce are probably used to being the expert in the room. Becoming a student again - picking up something new that we are not already good at – may seem like a recipe for frustration and failure. Because we